The Automatic Image Processing system for Microarray experiments (AIM) is designed for uncalibrated
microarray gridding and quantitative image analysis. Design goals were

To use as little a-priori information as possible

To allow reliable gridding of any kind of grid layout

To require only the absolutely necessary user interaction

Uncalibrated microarray image analysis supports integration of expression data from different sources and can improve reproducibility.

The AIM system contains GUI programs to operate the system independently as well as commandline tools that can be embedded
in pipelines. AIM uses XML formats for structured data storage and has interfaces to commonly used file formats. Detailed
information on the algorithms implemented in our system can be found in the references.